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Ei B. ,ROLLASON. OHNAMENTAL HAIR CO'MB. APPLICATION Hummm/29.1915.

1,305,309. Patented June 3, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

ERNEST BRIGHT EoLLASoN, on SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

ORNAMENTAL HAIR-00MB.

Specification of Letters Patent. i Patented J une 3, 1919.

Application led July 29, 1915. Serial No. 42.508.

To all wwm t may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST BRIGHT ROLLA- soN, subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 121 Castlereagh street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Hair-Combs, of which the following is a speciication.

It is well known that many devices have been invented for preventing hair-pins from falling from the hair of the wearer when they have been installed in the usual way.

This invention consists in returning at an acute angle and obliquely, one of the legs of an ordinary plain hair-pin. The returned part will efectua-lly prevent the pin or the comb from dropping out from the hair.

In the accompanying drawings, Jforming part hereof, is illustrated a form of embodiment of the invention, Jand in which:

Figure 1, is a front elevation of ahair-pin with the returned point o-one of 'the legs.

Fig. 2, is an edge elevation of the same.

Fig. 3, is anfend view of Fig. 1. It may be mentioned that many experiments have been made with various devices to secure the end sought.- If both points of a Vhair-pinbe turned over, much difficulty will be experienced in releasing it; if the turned over part be .located intermediately between the points and the bend, on either one or both legs of the hair-pin, it will be 'easy to-insert the pin in the hair, but almost f impossible to withdraw 1t,fbut with only one point turned up, the pin may be readily inserted and withdrawn.

Having thus full)7 described my'invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A hair pin constructed of a single .length of resilient material and comp-rising a pair of legs of unequal lengths, and a connecting bend, said legs being spaced apart in parallelism and disposed in the same plane,

the long leg of the said two legs having `the lend thereof bent outwardly and rearwardly at an acute angle to provide a return bend or hook, said return bend or hook being disposed in a plane oblique to the plane .of said legs and adapted to engage the hair to retain the hair pin therein and arranged to be dis-l engaged by a rotative movement of the hair pin to release the latter readily withou breaking the hair.

2. A hair pin constructed of a single length of resilient material and comprising a pair `ofstraight parallel legs or prongs and a connecting bend, a Single leg or prong onlyM of the hair pin being provided with an eX- teriorly arranged return bend adapted to engage the hair to retain thev hair pin therein and arranged to be disengaged by a rotative movement of the hair pin to release thelate ter readily without breaking the hair.v

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this' speciioation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST BRIGHT ROLLA SON.

Witnesses:

A. IVIOSSER,

'I-I. C. CAMPBELL.L 

